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in the first year you'd take us down to $472 billion for the core pentagon program, and that would be about the equivalent of 2006-2007, which accideincident was one of the highest spending years since world war ii, including all of the cold war. we'd only be cutting about 14%. dick cheney myself, and my boss colin powell at the time and george h.w. bush cut about 25%. this is not a draconian cut, even if it's done by se questation. >> you've warned about the industrial complex, nice turn of phrase there. is there any way out of it. >> well, dwight eisenhower is the man we should give credit to that. i don't know anymore. that's an excellent question. my former boss, colin powell, mentioned about nine months ago or something about us having created a industrial terrorism complex, and when you look at the homeland security budget, you look at $100 billion-plus for the intelligence community and ask what are we getting for it, and you look at this complex that we've created, dana priest and bill arcon of the washington post did a great job of covering this complex. 800,000-plus security
in the first year you'd take us down to $472 billion for the core pentagon program, and that would be about the equivalent of 2006-2007, which accideincident was one of the highest spending years since world war ii, including all of the cold war. we'd only be cutting about 14%. dick cheney myself, and my boss colin powell at the time and george h.w. bush cut about 25%. this is not a draconian cut, even if it's done by se questation. >> you've warned about the industrial complex, nice turn...
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she's held several big jobs at the pentagon and is very well respected. ashton carter, currently the number two, he has actually spent the last few years wrangling with the defense industry and also with congress, so he comes in with that kind of nuts and bolts experience of how to work through this period of reshaping. >> and when you think about hagel's personal views on iran, because that's, i think, the most substantive of the foreign policy critiques against him, what are they and do they matter for this job? sometimes i hear him and it sounds more like a secretary of defense issue than a secretary of state issue. >> if you remember, it has not been a year since we had a crisis of going to war with iran, so i imagine we'll have at least one more with hagel's tenure. we should exhaust options before we think of a military strike on iran, and that, fortunately or unfortunately, depending how you look at it, a military strike on iran will not necessarily stop iran's nuclear program, and hagel has been quite skeptical about it, a skepticism which is shar
she's held several big jobs at the pentagon and is very well respected. ashton carter, currently the number two, he has actually spent the last few years wrangling with the defense industry and also with congress, so he comes in with that kind of nuts and bolts experience of how to work through this period of reshaping. >> and when you think about hagel's personal views on iran, because that's, i think, the most substantive of the foreign policy critiques against him, what are they and do...
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we see for a second time a trial balloon, chuck hagel, floated for the pentagon. all of this and commercial being bought and aired, admittedly only in the d.c. area and on cable, but they're spending real money, and are you seeing the conservative line-up against chuck hagel even before he has been nominated for the pentagon. you covered him on the hill. let's talk about why some of his fellow republicans are going after him so hard. >> that's the important point. he is a republican, and that would give the president an opportunity to look more bipartisan in his cabinet, so that's an important reason why his name is being floated. there's been a lot of concern among republicans that he was not as loyal to his party as they would have liked to have seen. some comments with respect to iran that they disagreed with. some of the challenges during chuck hagel's time here, there are long memories here, and when you talk about the delay of making any announcements about cabinet positions, it does open up this space for the criticism to flow in. it's in part due to the tr
we see for a second time a trial balloon, chuck hagel, floated for the pentagon. all of this and commercial being bought and aired, admittedly only in the d.c. area and on cable, but they're spending real money, and are you seeing the conservative line-up against chuck hagel even before he has been nominated for the pentagon. you covered him on the hill. let's talk about why some of his fellow republicans are going after him so hard. >> that's the important point. he is a republican, and...
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what happens is taxes go up on a lot of people and pentagon spending gets slashed. what they're worried about is the tea party in their own districts. so they don't want to vote to raise taxes. you know, they'd rather just see what harry reed and obama can do and let boehner just kind of twist in the wind here. >> you know, maria, you did that impression because when boehner's conference meeting was over and he admitted he didn't have to votes, it stunned the gop. i'm looking at a meeting where mike coffman said i've never seen anything like it where leadership just completely backed down. it is stunning. >> i think what ryan says is absolutely right. the problem right now with the gop is it's basically eating itself. and there's no place for them to go. not only do they not have leverage, but all of the sudden, today, when the president came out and communicated to the american people saying we are trying to make sure that we don't go over the fiscal cliff, we are trying to make sure that you have a job the next day, come january 1 and that we're not slashing defen
what happens is taxes go up on a lot of people and pentagon spending gets slashed. what they're worried about is the tea party in their own districts. so they don't want to vote to raise taxes. you know, they'd rather just see what harry reed and obama can do and let boehner just kind of twist in the wind here. >> you know, maria, you did that impression because when boehner's conference meeting was over and he admitted he didn't have to votes, it stunned the gop. i'm looking at a meeting...
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he may be replaced by john kerry or chuck hagel or top pentagon official, ashton carter or michelle flouryon. the special envoy to afghanistan and pakistan, mark grossman, the man that took over after richard holbrooke died. he too is stepping down from that onvy to afghanistan and pakistan. hillary clinton may be replaced by susan rice or somebody else. hillary clinton says she, herself, will not be staying on for the second term. so if you just want to focus on the war for a second, it is all change in terms of the leadership for the top officials in year 12 of america's longest war. all change for everybody in top roles there except for the president and the vice president and the 66,000 americans who are still in afghanistan fighting that war. america's war in afghanistan is not due to end this year or next year. it is not due to end until the end of the year after that, at the end of 2014. that's the date by which president obama says the u.s. combat mission in afghanistan will end. it seems important to note that that is the latest possible date by which the president says the combat m
he may be replaced by john kerry or chuck hagel or top pentagon official, ashton carter or michelle flouryon. the special envoy to afghanistan and pakistan, mark grossman, the man that took over after richard holbrooke died. he too is stepping down from that onvy to afghanistan and pakistan. hillary clinton may be replaced by susan rice or somebody else. hillary clinton says she, herself, will not be staying on for the second term. so if you just want to focus on the war for a second, it is all...
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, for what it's worth, the pentagon said they're very happy with st. louis and the other cities marking the end of the war. and those other cities are showing us all how to do it. you just do it. you worry more about asking forgiveness than asking permission. cities doing their own thing to mark the end of the iraq
, for what it's worth, the pentagon said they're very happy with st. louis and the other cities marking the end of the war. and those other cities are showing us all how to do it. you just do it. you worry more about asking forgiveness than asking permission. cities doing their own thing to mark the end of the iraq
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, for what it's worth, the pentagon has said they're happy with st. louis and they're happy for other cities to do other things to mark the end of the war and fayetteville and rich monday, virginia, tucson and rome, georgia and st. louis, missouri are showing us all how to do it. you just do
, for what it's worth, the pentagon has said they're happy with st. louis and they're happy for other cities to do other things to mark the end of the war and fayetteville and rich monday, virginia, tucson and rome, georgia and st. louis, missouri are showing us all how to do it. you just do
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. >>> the pentagon says iranian aircraft fired twice at an unarmed u.s. drone patrolling the persian gulf last week. the shots missed and the drone was unharmed. >>> and next week, a house panel will hold a hearing on the september 11th attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi that left four americans dead. >>> and now here's your first look at this morning's dish of scrambled politics. shell shocked. that is how a campaign adviser describes mitt romney's reaction after giving his concession speech. this according to cbs news. insiders tell nbc news the campaign closed down so quickly some staffers couldn't even use their campaign-funded credit cards to pay for their taxis home that night because they'd been deactivated. >>> florida secretary of state says he hopes to finally have full election results by saturday, but the romney campaign says either way it won't bother contesting the numbers. >>> look fast because this is probably all you'll ever see of president elect romney's website. it accidently went live just long enough for political blogger to ca
. >>> the pentagon says iranian aircraft fired twice at an unarmed u.s. drone patrolling the persian gulf last week. the shots missed and the drone was unharmed. >>> and next week, a house panel will hold a hearing on the september 11th attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi that left four americans dead. >>> and now here's your first look at this morning's dish of scrambled politics. shell shocked. that is how a campaign adviser describes mitt romney's reaction...
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house republicans are working on a pair of bills related to the defense department, bills about the pentagon budget. and they decided that their contribution to this news cycle that is unexpectedly all about gay issues in politics would be to add two anti-gay amendments to this defense bill they're working on. one amendment to try to block gay soldiers to get married and to protect people who discriminate against gay troops. that's nice. and another amendment to further their support for the anti-gay defense of marriage act, which the obama administration says is unconstitutional. these are defense bills. and this was the middle of the night last night. it's almost like the republicans saw president obama doing something kind of nice for gay people with his comments in the afternoon, and they decided that they therefore needed to stick it to gay people in response. what can we do with that, what is it, a defense bill? what can we do in a defense bill that might hurt gay people? it hurts gay soldiers? i don't care. let's get 'em anyway! at one point, the debate over these defense bills, becau
house republicans are working on a pair of bills related to the defense department, bills about the pentagon budget. and they decided that their contribution to this news cycle that is unexpectedly all about gay issues in politics would be to add two anti-gay amendments to this defense bill they're working on. one amendment to try to block gay soldiers to get married and to protect people who discriminate against gay troops. that's nice. and another amendment to further their support for the...
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that depending how you calculate, the state department budget is one-tenth, one-11, one-12th of the pentagon budget. i think people are realizing, there are two conversations going on here in washington, right? you have the benghazi report this morning. you've got the talk about the fiscal cliff, which underneath it suggests that government should do more with less, and the state department to some extent is a manifestation of that. it's actually an incredibly well managed bureaucracy. however, over the years it has been systematically underfunded. when a defense budget goes to the hill, congress -- members of congress go what can we add to it? when the foreign relations budget goes to the hill, the reaction is what can we subtract from it because it's not the same political constituency. >> i want to bring in our panel here. you know, josh, we -- there's been so much back -- there's so much politicizing over everything from, you know, the fast and the furious, attorney general eric holder, the benghazi events that were certainly tragedy iic, the loss of life, the loss of the u.s. ambassador
that depending how you calculate, the state department budget is one-tenth, one-11, one-12th of the pentagon budget. i think people are realizing, there are two conversations going on here in washington, right? you have the benghazi report this morning. you've got the talk about the fiscal cliff, which underneath it suggests that government should do more with less, and the state department to some extent is a manifestation of that. it's actually an incredibly well managed bureaucracy. however,...
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>> the influence today of the muslim brotherhood at the highest levels from the white house to the pentagon to the fbi even to our united states military truly is breathily and people have to know about it. >> i could call this is parallel universe but it's the far right out there. how do you separate this kind of stuff from the mainstream republican conservatism. >> i was talking to several members of congress about this today. members of congress look at michele bachmann -- >> there's other guys in this besides her. >> we're just talking about michele bachmann in the story. there's some other good guys in part of that letter. but they're wrong. i think you have to be really, really careful on these types of attacks. that language she's using is so paralleled to what mccarthy said. you have to know your history. and you cannot make these accusations without some real hard proof. to demonize someone like huma is a huge mistake. >> joe and i were talking at dinner the other night. i think i brought this up. you can't turn on an american television show with at least one of the young characte
>> the influence today of the muslim brotherhood at the highest levels from the white house to the pentagon to the fbi even to our united states military truly is breathily and people have to know about it. >> i could call this is parallel universe but it's the far right out there. how do you separate this kind of stuff from the mainstream republican conservatism. >> i was talking to several members of congress about this today. members of congress look at michele bachmann --...
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the pentagon deployed two u.s. warships off the coast of libya and the president is promising to bring the killers to justice. >> i want people around the world to hear me, to all those who would do us harm, no act of terror will go unpunished. it will not dim the light of the values that we proudly present to the rest of the world. no act of violence shakes the resolve of the united states of america. >>> coming up, turns out there is a superpower greater than the ability to fly and today fed chairman ben bernanke reminds us what it is as the federal reserve moves in a dramatic way to shore up and accelerate a slow recovery and help the unemployed. jared bernstein will join me next. >>> and later, ron paul may be leaving congress, but his campaign to end the fed is alive and well in the republican party. dave weigel is here to discuss it. when you take a closer look... ...at the best schools in the world... ...you see they all have something very interesting in common. they have teachers... ...with a deeper knowle
the pentagon deployed two u.s. warships off the coast of libya and the president is promising to bring the killers to justice. >> i want people around the world to hear me, to all those who would do us harm, no act of terror will go unpunished. it will not dim the light of the values that we proudly present to the rest of the world. no act of violence shakes the resolve of the united states of america. >>> coming up, turns out there is a superpower greater than the ability to fly...
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the only way i can get this stuff done is if i'm consulting with the pentagon, if i'm consulting with congress, if i've got bipartisan support. >> many republicans including presidential candidate mitt romney were quick to label the president's remarks as troubling. but house speaker john boehner hadn'ted the criticism was inappropriate. >> well, clearly the president is overseas. he's at a conference. and, you know, while the president's overseas, i think it's appropriate that people not be critical of him or of our country. >>> well, a new cbs news/"new york times" poll shows support for the afghanistan war plummeted to i a record low. 69% disapprove. that's the lowest ever since they started the question back in 2009. >>> fire officials in colorado are asking for help from the fire department and fire departments as far away as arizona to contain a fatal wildfire that has killed one person and forced more than 900 home evacuations. the fire has scorched 37 square miles and caused at least a half million dollars worth of damage. >>> well, dominique strauss-kahn, the former head of t
the only way i can get this stuff done is if i'm consulting with the pentagon, if i'm consulting with congress, if i've got bipartisan support. >> many republicans including presidential candidate mitt romney were quick to label the president's remarks as troubling. but house speaker john boehner hadn'ted the criticism was inappropriate. >> well, clearly the president is overseas. he's at a conference. and, you know, while the president's overseas, i think it's appropriate that...
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there's political will to make cuts in the pentagon. there isn't political will to cut entitlements. so the kinds of things that republicans say they want to do, including preserving the tax rates for the top 2%, are not things there's a huge amount of public support for. >> republicans clearly are ignoring the political will of the people. >> they are just picking and choosing, which is what mitt romney did. you pick and choose and you don't get above 47%. they are trying to deal with the secondary problem and not with the first one. we got into this deficit because there was an economic downturn because of the bush tax cuts. you have to deal with that. you want higher tax rates and you want actually to lower spending on military. but you have to deal with entitlements, but until you agree on the problem and the politics, you're not going to come up with a resolution. >> richard wolffe and molly ball, thank you. >>> coming up, republicans told voters the president's policies were bad for the economy. new data tells a different story. w
there's political will to make cuts in the pentagon. there isn't political will to cut entitlements. so the kinds of things that republicans say they want to do, including preserving the tax rates for the top 2%, are not things there's a huge amount of public support for. >> republicans clearly are ignoring the political will of the people. >> they are just picking and choosing, which is what mitt romney did. you pick and choose and you don't get above 47%. they are trying to deal...
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the pentagon has released a statement in reference to all of this. the secretary strongly states against this. a lot to talk about this morning. i am joined by nbc's jim miklaszewski standing by at the pentagon as well as msnbc military analyst and retired army colonel jack jacobs here with me in new york. mick, i want to start with you. we're hearing the remarks expressed by the secretary, disappointment coming from leon panetta for the pictures but also for the "l.a. times" in publishing these photos despite the fact the pentagon requested otherwise. now the jeannie is out of the body. how are they reacting? >> honestly, the first reaction at the pentagon was oh, my goodness, not again, are you kidding me? but they immediately then got into the investigation mode. they know who was responsible, who was involved. they were members of the 82nd airborne division out of ft. bragg who were originally sent to the scene to gather forensics on the bodies of dead taliban who were suicide bombers or others who had blown themselves up trying to plant an ied.
the pentagon has released a statement in reference to all of this. the secretary strongly states against this. a lot to talk about this morning. i am joined by nbc's jim miklaszewski standing by at the pentagon as well as msnbc military analyst and retired army colonel jack jacobs here with me in new york. mick, i want to start with you. we're hearing the remarks expressed by the secretary, disappointment coming from leon panetta for the pictures but also for the "l.a. times" in...
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on the pentagon's rathdar? it's risky. your son is still captured. >> the government seemed to decide now -- >> it wasn't the government -- >> it's not a story. look, this is not a story the pentagon want to tell. you know? >> and then you mentioned one of the factors, the discomfort here, because of the, what happened that led him to leave the base. and you know, i do want to pivot and move the conversation to the subject of soldier suicides which is -- a staggering statistic out today. basically, in the first 155 days of the year there have been more soldier suicides, the number of soldier suicides exceeded the number of combat troop deaths in afghanistan. the toll that it's taken on the men and women that are fighting overseas it is staggering isn't even -- i've used that word once, but it is dramatic and not something we talk about, and bergdahl is a result of the stresses placed and soldiers. >> whether than say he's not patriotic, this or that. young men in very stressful situation. extremely stressful, they have dif
on the pentagon's rathdar? it's risky. your son is still captured. >> the government seemed to decide now -- >> it wasn't the government -- >> it's not a story. look, this is not a story the pentagon want to tell. you know? >> and then you mentioned one of the factors, the discomfort here, because of the, what happened that led him to leave the base. and you know, i do want to pivot and move the conversation to the subject of soldier suicides which is -- a staggering...
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none in new york city, the ticker tape parade is because the pentagon does not think there should be one in new york specifically, even though they say they support others >>> before today we knew newt gingrich's billionaire had given $11 million to the super pac supporting mr. gingrich's candidacy, 11 and 5 million and another 5 million, now apparently more. an anonymous source refusing to say exactly how much more, but mr. gingrich's billionaire is giving more this time. the source tells the post the donation is "substantial and at least on par with the two five-million dollar donations sheldon adelson and family have given previously" giving mr. gingrich at least another $5 million today. that cash infusion will come too late to resuscitate his hopes in time for arizona or michigan tomorrow but he will be alive for super tuesday next week. "the washington post" reporting the pac will use tv ads in georgia, oklahoma, ohio and tennessee, with more to come wednesday in mississippi, alabama and kansas. skipping tomorrow's races in arizona and michigan, looking ahead to next week. make
none in new york city, the ticker tape parade is because the pentagon does not think there should be one in new york specifically, even though they say they support others >>> before today we knew newt gingrich's billionaire had given $11 million to the super pac supporting mr. gingrich's candidacy, 11 and 5 million and another 5 million, now apparently more. an anonymous source refusing to say exactly how much more, but mr. gingrich's billionaire is giving more this time. the source...
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what looked like a love triangle and now a love rhombus or parallel gram which moves you on to a love pentagon. i don't think there's any way of knowing what would have been brought by that original tip. it's bringing down some pretty lofty careers. >> what do you think about the tension between the fbi and cia? this would seem to expose some sort of -- i mean we know they're often -- agencies are often in competition with one another or there's tension. this would seem to be exemplary of that, given the fact that the fbi was investigating the head of the cia and some question whether that was appropriate, who knew what, where, when and how? >> it doesn't appear that the fbi attempted to use any of this information as leverage against the cia, which is what you would be concerned about domestic and international spy agencies learning information about each other and using it to leverage each other, to, you know, to create more or less power within the government. they've now toppled the cia director. one thing we should remember in this discussion and, you know, you're reading that opinion pie
what looked like a love triangle and now a love rhombus or parallel gram which moves you on to a love pentagon. i don't think there's any way of knowing what would have been brought by that original tip. it's bringing down some pretty lofty careers. >> what do you think about the tension between the fbi and cia? this would seem to expose some sort of -- i mean we know they're often -- agencies are often in competition with one another or there's tension. this would seem to be exemplary of...
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take a look at the pentagon. 20 to 25,000 people work every day, the average soldier airman or marine not happy with that. his view about large governments being really bad news really resonates with military. >> what he soft pedaled is the stuff where he cut veterans benefits or shrinks the military and leads to a bunch of staff sergeants getting rifed. he's basically soft pedaling the fact that affects them. it is very appealing to the kind of military ideal. >> he's also -- we're in the strange situation where he's the one talking about a lot of this stuff. ear in this weird situation where it's not always exactly clear how whichever republican person might get the nomination would differ from obama on a question of afghanistan or pakistan. these issues haven't been super salient during the campaign. if you looked -- if ron paul became the nominee -- >> which is a big if. >> and running against obama, i would think you would find the military donation numbers would be different. >> i agree with you and fringe candidates in the general election have never done well at all. we have t
take a look at the pentagon. 20 to 25,000 people work every day, the average soldier airman or marine not happy with that. his view about large governments being really bad news really resonates with military. >> what he soft pedaled is the stuff where he cut veterans benefits or shrinks the military and leads to a bunch of staff sergeants getting rifed. he's basically soft pedaling the fact that affects them. it is very appealing to the kind of military ideal. >> he's also -- we're...
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this thing does play out like some does suspect and john kerry ends up getting nominated to run the pentagon, that makes for a very interesting senate race in the state of massachusetts, once again. >> maybe, maybe not. what people keep forgetting in all of this is that the massachusetts legislature is run by democrats who could always just change the law back so that there's not a special election and it becomes an appointment, again. yes, some dominos falling in massachusetts if senator kerry gets that post, particularly if there is an election, which is the state of the law right now. scott brown expected to run for it and about as strong a republican as you can get in the state of massachusetts. >> molly ball, thank you so much. lynn sweet, one of my favorite ladies. lynn, i did not get to ask you about your jesse jackson, but i would encourage folks to read on what you wrote over gesjesse jackson jr. over the past week or so. some very insightful reporting. >>> 31 days out to the fiscal cliff. we will go live to see what the president is saying to house leaders and whether that will kee
this thing does play out like some does suspect and john kerry ends up getting nominated to run the pentagon, that makes for a very interesting senate race in the state of massachusetts, once again. >> maybe, maybe not. what people keep forgetting in all of this is that the massachusetts legislature is run by democrats who could always just change the law back so that there's not a special election and it becomes an appointment, again. yes, some dominos falling in massachusetts if senator...
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, knowing what the issues are on the hill, because the pentagon has to shrink, we all agree on that, and how they go about it and how they do is it very complicated. because if a defense contractor has a contract to make paper clips for the pentagon, they get those made in about 47 different states, they figure out how to do that. so somebody like hagel who can maneuver through that plus has the history of being on the armed services committee. they're not looking for a battlefield commander, they're looking for somebody to be able to run the business side of it. >> gentlemen, thank you very much. >>> we're following breaking news right now, state police are responding to a report of a school shooting in newtown, connecticut. they say it happened at sandy hook elementary just before 10:00 this morning, no word on any injuries. a shop across the street, someone who works there tells nbc news that three ambulances responded but they have already left the area. a child care center next door has locked down the building. we will keep you posted on this developing story out of newtown, co
, knowing what the issues are on the hill, because the pentagon has to shrink, we all agree on that, and how they go about it and how they do is it very complicated. because if a defense contractor has a contract to make paper clips for the pentagon, they get those made in about 47 different states, they figure out how to do that. so somebody like hagel who can maneuver through that plus has the history of being on the armed services committee. they're not looking for a battlefield commander,...
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completely underadvice ra -- ra -- viscerates money for the special net and shifts it to the wealthy and the pentagon. so the challenge here is going to be on the bus and speaking out in nine states over two weeks to show what the problems are. >> i want you to know, i feel myself in
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this is our man at the pentagon. mick, so many times when it comes to north korea, they do these things and i said it's not the fourth of july and noting this and christmas. usually they wait to a holiday. this one seems more serious. >> it is. the u.s. military and intelligence officials actually expected the launch to occur december 17th which would be the one-year anniversary of the death of kim jung il, the father of the current leader kim jung un. not only were they taken by surprise and shocked like the rest of the world, when they called me and gave me the news, they said you won't believe this. it looks like they actually put something into orbit. this rocket is a three-stage ballistic missile actually that was launched from the west coast of korea and this time unlike for previous launches which were total disasters, it worked perfectly. each stage dropped off when it should. the object, whatever it was, whether it was a satellite that north koreans claim, whatever it was separated from the nose cone and wen
this is our man at the pentagon. mick, so many times when it comes to north korea, they do these things and i said it's not the fourth of july and noting this and christmas. usually they wait to a holiday. this one seems more serious. >> it is. the u.s. military and intelligence officials actually expected the launch to occur december 17th which would be the one-year anniversary of the death of kim jung il, the father of the current leader kim jung un. not only were they taken by surprise...
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military or the pentagon to drop plans for military intervention in syria. the pentagon drafted a long-term vision of what a military operation in syria would look like that had to do with miscommunication at panetta's testimony yesterday on capitol hill. the deputy oil minster has reportedly defected and posted a video on you tube that make him the highest ranking official to leave since the up rising began a year ago. >> per new concerns about the nuclear program today. images of a facility appear to show trucks and earth moving vehicles at the site. diplomats say that indicates a clean up of radioactive traces. senate leaders struck a deal clearing the way for a vote on $109 billion overhaul of the skmoi transit programs at the same time john boehner is struggling to get his colleagues to pass a version of the bill. we will talk about that later in the hour. >> the opening bell just rang. time for the run down. really late. i am sorry i have been doing this. >> this is good because we can tell you where the market is opening. 70 points on the dow. gains y
military or the pentagon to drop plans for military intervention in syria. the pentagon drafted a long-term vision of what a military operation in syria would look like that had to do with miscommunication at panetta's testimony yesterday on capitol hill. the deputy oil minster has reportedly defected and posted a video on you tube that make him the highest ranking official to leave since the up rising began a year ago. >> per new concerns about the nuclear program today. images of a...
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pentagon sources tell nbc news that the syrian government has loaded sarin gas, a deadly nerve agent, into aerial bombs and is awaiting orders from president assad to use it. michael o'hanlon of the brookings institution joins us now. mike, every day it seems the urgency grows on the syrian crisis. how is the u.s. dealing now with this very real threat apparently of chemical weapons? >> hi, martin. well, i don't know how we're dealing with it at the military planning level but certainly as you mentioned, at the political level there are clear threats and the united states would have to do something if assad decided this was his hail mary attempt to slow down the insurgency in an effort to destroy them. i think if that happened what we would do at a minimum would be to attack from the air any known chemical weapon depots. then the question becomes can we really just do that, make a statement, and go home or are we now essentially involved in the conflict at least up until its bitter end with the overthrow of assad? i would tend to think the latter. those are the kind of issues that are
pentagon sources tell nbc news that the syrian government has loaded sarin gas, a deadly nerve agent, into aerial bombs and is awaiting orders from president assad to use it. michael o'hanlon of the brookings institution joins us now. mike, every day it seems the urgency grows on the syrian crisis. how is the u.s. dealing now with this very real threat apparently of chemical weapons? >> hi, martin. well, i don't know how we're dealing with it at the military planning level but certainly...
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we're going after that pentagon and we're going to cut back dramatically this huge defense establishment we don't need. neither party is doing that, so we have this silly debate going on of one fairy tale versus another. >> president obama said let's go big. he was ready to go big on the deficit reduction package and the republicans didn't come to the plate. in fact, paul ryan played a real role in that telling his own leadership that if we do that, this is going to walk president obama right into a second term. so president obama was willing to put -- >> i agree. >> he's also willing to raise taxes. go back to the old rates and let the bush tax cuts expire, which would bring more money into the treasury. but no one talks about how much money that would actually be. do you know? >> yes, i know. it would be for the top rates, it's over a trillion dollars. >> so it would help. >> it would help a lot but we need to let them expire for everybody. that's $2.5 trillion. there's a trillion dollars worth of loopholes easy. cut the rates, give everybody a big tax rate and they ought to be paying
we're going after that pentagon and we're going to cut back dramatically this huge defense establishment we don't need. neither party is doing that, so we have this silly debate going on of one fairy tale versus another. >> president obama said let's go big. he was ready to go big on the deficit reduction package and the republicans didn't come to the plate. in fact, paul ryan played a real role in that telling his own leadership that if we do that, this is going to walk president obama...
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so does that mean he's willing to stay in the pentagon for four more years? for the pool report, panetta told reporters, quote, who the hell knows? my experience in washington is you'd better do this day-to-day. as we reported friday, one of the candidates for panetta's job, when he does go, is actually senator john kerry who is being considered for defense essentially as a consolation prize if he does not get the state department job which is what he truly covets because the assumption right now is, and there's a lot of support for her inside the white house, the president will nominate susan rice to succeed hillary clinton instead. but if rice does get nominated she could have a pretty big confirmation battle on her hands. many republicans, including a guy like south carolina senator lindsey graham who normally ends up confirming a lot of the president's appointments, did in the first term, is promising a brutal confirmation pick if rice is picked. >> i'm not entertaining promoting anybody that i think was involved with the benghazi debacle. i'm not going t
so does that mean he's willing to stay in the pentagon for four more years? for the pool report, panetta told reporters, quote, who the hell knows? my experience in washington is you'd better do this day-to-day. as we reported friday, one of the candidates for panetta's job, when he does go, is actually senator john kerry who is being considered for defense essentially as a consolation prize if he does not get the state department job which is what he truly covets because the assumption right...
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i know you're taking a break now from the pentagon. all good wishes. >> thank you so much. >> on "rock center with brian williams" in our first for network nbc news has been granted unprecedented access to the situation room. next wednesday brian williams interviews the president in the situation room with vice president biden, secretary of state hillary clinton, admiral mike mullen and the national security team. that is all wednesday, 9:00 eastern on rock center with brian williams. >>> as a columnist for "the new york times," anna quinlan became a voice for women who battled over the guilt of work and life balance and so much more. now she has written a memoir on all the chapters of her life so far called "lots of candles, plenty of cake." joining me now is bul zer prize winning author anna quinndlen. it is wonderful to have this memoir and to have you really thinking deeply in print about your role as a woman, your marriage, getting older, your children, solitude. i was fascinated by the book. congratulations. >> thank you so much,
i know you're taking a break now from the pentagon. all good wishes. >> thank you so much. >> on "rock center with brian williams" in our first for network nbc news has been granted unprecedented access to the situation room. next wednesday brian williams interviews the president in the situation room with vice president biden, secretary of state hillary clinton, admiral mike mullen and the national security team. that is all wednesday, 9:00 eastern on rock center with...
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they also then eliminated the controls on the pentagon, and one of the things that we know is that these social programs are the most accountable. they've taken the largest cuts in history. i mean, just last year they took over a billion in cuts over ten years. i mean, these programs are decimated, and, yet, striving so hard to care for people, and, yet, the pentagon, we think, should be as accountable as social programs, so we need -- we know that our men and women in uniform need to be protected, but there's a lot of pork and a lot of unexamined waste at the pentagon, and congressman -- i mean senator web has pointed that out. there are a variety of study that is have pointed that out, but the republicans seem to close their eyes to that reality. >> i don't want to put ow the spot, but i know you were at the dnc, and i know have you have been out there as a forceful advocate. clearly you found ways to get your message out. sometimes people think any discussion of poverty is sort of a bummer rather than a policy challenge, and you have helped bridge that. what is your conversation with
they also then eliminated the controls on the pentagon, and one of the things that we know is that these social programs are the most accountable. they've taken the largest cuts in history. i mean, just last year they took over a billion in cuts over ten years. i mean, these programs are decimated, and, yet, striving so hard to care for people, and, yet, the pentagon, we think, should be as accountable as social programs, so we need -- we know that our men and women in uniform need to be...
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i think he is not going to be a creep about "don't ask, don't tell" if he gets put in charge of the pentagon who has just gone through hell and high water to repeal "don't ask, don't tell," thank you very much. we don't know if chuck hagel was sorry about his attack on hormel before that might stop him from getting the top job. we don't know if huck hagel is the president's top choice to get nominated for that job. it seems like we only got the first nominee for president obama's new cabinet today because of a meltdown in congress last night. let's hope that we don't have to wait for something quite that dramatic before we get the rest of his nominees too. >>> hey, one more thing about president obama potentially picking former republican senator chuck hagel to be secretary of defense in his second term. in 1998, as we just mentioned, chuck hagel opposed the nomination of james hormone male to be an ambassador because mr. hagel said hormel was aggressively too guy. well, chuck hagel apologized for remarks 14 years later when it might potentially screw up his nomination to head the pentagon.
i think he is not going to be a creep about "don't ask, don't tell" if he gets put in charge of the pentagon who has just gone through hell and high water to repeal "don't ask, don't tell," thank you very much. we don't know if chuck hagel was sorry about his attack on hormel before that might stop him from getting the top job. we don't know if huck hagel is the president's top choice to get nominated for that job. it seems like we only got the first nominee for president...
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the embargo on his name just lifted by the pentagon. a member of the navy's elite s.e.a.l. team six was killed during the rescue of an american doctor abducted by the taliban five days ago. president obama said he gave his life for his fellow americans. he and his teammates remind us once more of the selfless service that allows our nation to stay strong, safe and free. >>> egyptian president mohamed morsi has given the military the authority to make arrests. this after saturday's revoking of a constitutional decree failed to put an end to the protests. >>> syrian rebels say they've captured a part of a large military base. it would be the latest in a series of setbacks for the assad regime. >>> south african officials say nelson mandela is doing very well after spending a second night in a hospital for what they are calling routine tests. >>> dallas cowboys player josh brent was released from jail on a $500,000 bond. brent was charged with intoxication manslaughter after a car crash that killed his friend and teammate jerry brown. >>> two university of colorado students ha
the embargo on his name just lifted by the pentagon. a member of the navy's elite s.e.a.l. team six was killed during the rescue of an american doctor abducted by the taliban five days ago. president obama said he gave his life for his fellow americans. he and his teammates remind us once more of the selfless service that allows our nation to stay strong, safe and free. >>> egyptian president mohamed morsi has given the military the authority to make arrests. this after saturday's...
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that really kind of gets laughed at when i've had conversations with the people in the military and pentagon around it. not a lot of people view it credible. it's one thing to make a critique about leaks, it's quite another thing to inject yourself in the middle of a political campaign and get the uniform involved in it. >> does this have nothing to do with their military role r, more are their ideology on the right? >> it's hard to understand how they'd get any traction. as a cover to make this sort of strange critique of obama, this is a president who's prosecuted more leakers than any other previous one to the consternation of civil libertarian organizations. >> foreign policy magazine reports that one of the main spokes men in this group, ben smith has put this out on his blog. you are an imposter. you are a muslim. you are the manchurian president, may you go back to the country you were born in, you little, little man and take all your communist supporters with you. that is the thinking hind this guy. >> thanks for having me. one of the things we have to sort of look at here is this ha
that really kind of gets laughed at when i've had conversations with the people in the military and pentagon around it. not a lot of people view it credible. it's one thing to make a critique about leaks, it's quite another thing to inject yourself in the middle of a political campaign and get the uniform involved in it. >> does this have nothing to do with their military role r, more are their ideology on the right? >> it's hard to understand how they'd get any traction. as a cover...
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. >>> pentagon sources tell nbc that the u.s. is growing increasingly concerned that israel will attack iran in the near future, possibly as early as april. it couples with the story in the "washington post" in which leon panetta says there's a strong likelihood that it will be launched before the summer. this as israeli officials say an iranian missile destroyed has range of 6,000 miles meaning tehran is working on weapons that could reach u.s. shores. the obama administration has imposed harsh sanctions on iran and says all options remain on the table when it comes to prevent tehran from developing weapons. good afternoon, sir. >> hi. >> iran supreme leader made threats against america at friday press today. is this threat real, and how soon could it materialize? >> i think it's real, absolutely. this is who whole problem with this policy, which i think is a bluff on israel's part. i think they see a weakened iran. the economy is bad. the israelis would like to get the most out. on the other hand what we're risking is a paranoi
. >>> pentagon sources tell nbc that the u.s. is growing increasingly concerned that israel will attack iran in the near future, possibly as early as april. it couples with the story in the "washington post" in which leon panetta says there's a strong likelihood that it will be launched before the summer. this as israeli officials say an iranian missile destroyed has range of 6,000 miles meaning tehran is working on weapons that could reach u.s. shores. the obama...
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opening offer to the president is to keep the bush tax cuts, cut entitlements, and postpone cuts to the pentagon. in other words, they haven't budged at all. how is that compromise? how is that reasonable? but it gets worse. speaker boehner now says the health care law should go under the knife. boehner says, quote, we can't afford it. we can't afford to leave it in tact. that's why i've been clear that the law has to stay on the table as both parties discuss ways to solve our nation's massive debt challenge. folks, this debate is over. the american people have spoken. mitt romney ran on two big ideas in this campaign. cut the taxes and reveal our obama care. he lost. those ideas lost. but they didn't learn a thing. joining me now is congressman keith ellison, democrat for minnesota. he's co-chair of the progressive caucus. and former pennsylvania governor ed rendell, now an nchl bc news political analyst. thank you both for joining me tonight. >> glad to be here, al. >> good to be here. >> congressman, let me start with you. what is your are reaction to speaker boehner's claim that the health c
opening offer to the president is to keep the bush tax cuts, cut entitlements, and postpone cuts to the pentagon. in other words, they haven't budged at all. how is that compromise? how is that reasonable? but it gets worse. speaker boehner now says the health care law should go under the knife. boehner says, quote, we can't afford it. we can't afford to leave it in tact. that's why i've been clear that the law has to stay on the table as both parties discuss ways to solve our nation's massive...
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washington post" today really going after the hagel idea and saying he'd been out there calling the pentagon bloated. i don't know who's going to argue with that, but it's not a great way to come in the door. >> a lot of problems with these nominations and the way they are being managed, rather. mike, thank you very much. >> thank you for your coverage. >>> up next, "times" person of the year, the story and pictures that tell it. a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief for many with arthritis pain and inflammation. plus, in clinical studies, celebrex is proven to improve daily physical function so moving is easier. celebrex can be taken with or without food. and it's not a narcotic. you and your doctor should balance the benefits with the risks. all prescription nsaids, like celebrex,
washington post" today really going after the hagel idea and saying he'd been out there calling the pentagon bloated. i don't know who's going to argue with that, but it's not a great way to come in the door. >> a lot of problems with these nominations and the way they are being managed, rather. mike, thank you very much. >> thank you for your coverage. >>> up next, "times" person of the year, the story and pictures that tell it. a body at rest tends to stay...
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i think he is not going to be a creep about "don't ask, don't tell" if he gets put in charge of the pentagon who has just gone through hell and high water to repeal "don't ask, don't tell," thank you very much. we don't know if chuck hagel was sorry about his attack on hormel before that might stop him from getting the top job. we don't know if huck hagel is the president's top choice to get nominated for that job. it seems like we only got the first nominee for president obama's new cabinet today because of a meltdown in congress last night. let's hope that we don't have to wait for something quite that dramatic before we get the rest of his nominees too. ♪ ♪ i want candy ♪ ♪ i want candy your soups are so awesomely delicious my husband and i can't stop eating 'em! what's...that... on your head? can curlers! tomato basil, potato with bacon... we've got a lot of empty cans. [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] everyone deserves the gift of all day pain relief. this season, discover aleve. all day pain relief with just two pills. >>> hey,
i think he is not going to be a creep about "don't ask, don't tell" if he gets put in charge of the pentagon who has just gone through hell and high water to repeal "don't ask, don't tell," thank you very much. we don't know if chuck hagel was sorry about his attack on hormel before that might stop him from getting the top job. we don't know if huck hagel is the president's top choice to get nominated for that job. it seems like we only got the first nominee for president...
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i think he is not going to be a creep about "don't ask, don't tell" if he gets put in charge of the pentagon who has just gone through hell and high water to repeal "don't ask, don't tell," thank you very much. we don't know if chuck hagel was sorry about his attack on hormel before that might stop him from getting the top job. we don't know if huck hagel is the president's top choice to get nominated for that job. it seems like we only got the first nominee for president obama's new cabinet today because of a meltdown in congress last night. let's hope that we don't have to wait for something quite that dramatic before we get the rest of his nominees too. androgel 1, there's big news. presenting androgel 1.62%. both are used to treat men with low testosterone. androgel 1.62% is from the makers of the number one prescribed testosterone replacement therapy. it raises your testosterone levels, and... is concentrated, so you could use less gel. and with androgel 1.62%, you can save on your monthly prescription. [ male announcer ] dosing and application sites between these products differ. women
i think he is not going to be a creep about "don't ask, don't tell" if he gets put in charge of the pentagon who has just gone through hell and high water to repeal "don't ask, don't tell," thank you very much. we don't know if chuck hagel was sorry about his attack on hormel before that might stop him from getting the top job. we don't know if huck hagel is the president's top choice to get nominated for that job. it seems like we only got the first nominee for president...
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i'm sure that at the pentagon where they have a very realistic view of comparability they would rather be in our vishoes than t chinese. >> thank you very much. >>> another place america's falling we hind china, education. and yet, as our resident mom krystal will tell you, getting your kid in a great school is tougher than ever. a former admissions officer cracks the code on the application process. you ever notice that some people just have a knack for giving the perfect gift? they put real thought into it. and find just... the right...thing. how do they do that? more saving. more doing. that's the power of the home depot. pick up a ridgid jobmax multi-tool starter kit and get a free head attachment. stop! stop! stop! come back here! humans -- we are beautifully imperfect creatures living in an imperfect world. that's why liberty mutual insurance has your back with great ideas like our optional better car replacement. if your car is totaled, we give you the money to buy one a model year newer. call... and ask one of our insurance experts about it today. hello?! we believe our custome
i'm sure that at the pentagon where they have a very realistic view of comparability they would rather be in our vishoes than t chinese. >> thank you very much. >>> another place america's falling we hind china, education. and yet, as our resident mom krystal will tell you, getting your kid in a great school is tougher than ever. a former admissions officer cracks the code on the application process. you ever notice that some people just have a knack for giving the perfect gift?...
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unveil his new military strategy aimed at cutting the pentagon's budget. the president acknowledged the new military whethill be leaner insisted no less meaner. >> the united states will maintain our military superiority with forces that are agile, flexible and ready for the full range of contingencies and threats. >> reporter: a decade of war in iraq and afghanistan zapped the military and sent pentagon spending soaring, up 71% in the past ten years. a bill that defense secretary leon panetta says the nation can no longer afford. >> all of this at a time when america faces a serious deficit and debt problem at home. a problem which is, itself, a national security risk squeezing both the defense and domestic budgets. >> reporter: to cut the military's budget will take a major shift in strategy. u.s. forces will focus on deterring a growing threat from china in the asia pacific region, conduct smaller counter insurgency operations with u.s. special forces elsewhere, and no longer attempt to fight two major ground wars at the same time. >> i'm uneasy about r
unveil his new military strategy aimed at cutting the pentagon's budget. the president acknowledged the new military whethill be leaner insisted no less meaner. >> the united states will maintain our military superiority with forces that are agile, flexible and ready for the full range of contingencies and threats. >> reporter: a decade of war in iraq and afghanistan zapped the military and sent pentagon spending soaring, up 71% in the past ten years. a bill that defense secretary...